Posted on 02/26/2019 3:04:58 AM PST by oblomov
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, will for the first time publicly accuse the president of criminal conduct while in office related to a hush-money payment to a porn star, a person familiar with his planned testimony before Congress said.
Appearing on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, Mr. Cohen also will make public some of Mr. Trump’s private financial statements and allege that Mr. Trump at times inflated or deflated his net worth for business and personal purposes, including avoiding paying property taxes, the person said. The financial statements were developed by Mr. Trump’s accountant, the person said. The Wall Street Journal hasn’t seen those statements.
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, will for the first time publicly accuse the president of criminal conduct while in office related to a hush-money payment to a porn star, a person familiar with his planned testimony before Congress said.
Appearing on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, Mr. Cohen also will make public some of Mr. Trump’s private financial statements and allege that Mr. Trump at times inflated or deflated his net worth for business and personal purposes, including avoiding paying property taxes, the person said. The financial statements were developed by Mr. Trump’s accountant, the person said. The Wall Street Journal hasn’t seen those statements.
Mr. Cohen is expected to recount racist remarks Mr. Trump allegedly made to him, including instances in which Mr. Trump allegedly questioned the intelligence of African-Americans and criticized their lifestyle choices, the person said.
Mr. Cohen’s planned testimony comes 13 months after The Wall Street Journal first reported that Mr. Cohen paid $130,000 in October 2016 to former adult-film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, to buy her silence after she alleged having a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump.
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Liars gotta lie.
JoMa
First, October 2016 was NOT a time when Trump was in office. The rest sounds like a violation of attorney/client privilege afforded anyone who hires an attorney. None of this sounds like it would stand up in court.
I hope he also tells us who killed Kennedy.
Somebody better warn Ted Cruz and his dad ...
So, why is this breaking news. Why are we regurgitating the media hysteria and giving credibility to the “importance” of this non-event. Cohen is a proven liar with a grudge. It’s that simple. He’s going down and he’s mad about it and he’ll lie to try to smear the President.
That’s the only reason he’s being called by little Adam Shitt. So, why do we need to pretend to care because the media thinks it’s important?
This really shouldn’t be breaking news. It’s breaking wind. We need to treat it as such.
It’s going to be pathetic as hell, a total puppet show, but no doubt the domestic enemies will use that as an excuse to impeach and further flame race relations.
Until the list of Congressional Offenders is published, every American Taxpayer is guilty of paying “hush” money.
In exchange for what?
I guess Mueller threatened to put Cohen in a small cell with Bubba.
It is much easier to plead guilty to something that is not a crime than it is to convict another of the non crime you plead guilty to.
Ah. So, The WSJ deals in insider hearsay.
Tune in to see COHEN totally DESTROY his INTEGRITY and his CAREER.
It's not supposed to. It is only supposed to endanger the negotiations with KIM and North Korea.
IF Trump negotiates a deal with KIM, the MSM/DEEPSTATE cannot hide it. Trump's popularity will rise. He would likely win re-election.
The DEMS cannot have that. They will destroy this country rather than lose.
Trump was NOT in office in October 2016 when he supposedly paid $130,000 to whore Stormy Daniels.
Donald Trump denied having an affair with her 13 years ago.
Cohen is just a rat POS and everyone knows it. Hopefully he'll get raped.
I wonder what the New York Bar thinks of this precedent that is being set here. Your lawyer testifying against you and handing over your records to Congress.
I’m curious as to what the Pubbies on the committee will do. I expect they will roll over and beg Schiff-for-brains to rub their bellies.
What happened to the sacred bond of lawyer client confidentiality? Trump should challenge that.
The Democrats also are in the habit of dropping nonsense like this when the President is out of the country engaged in important negotiations with foreign leaders, with the sole purpose of undermining him.
This is really outrageous and I cannot for the life of me understand how an attorney can be permitted to testify about the comments and behavior of his client during the time he was represented.
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